Sponsored by:Swiss Association for North American StudiesSwiss National Science Foundation (SNF)University of Geneva

The Native Studies Research Network, UK, invites proposals for papersfor its inaugural European conference.

Established in April 2006, the NSRN has 70 members at 30 UKinstitutions working in 8 academic disciplines. Having held its firstBritish colloquium in September 2006, the NSRN will now host atopic-led, full-scale conference inviting the participation ofinternational scholars to foster scholarly debate in the field. It ishoped that the geographic centrality of Switzerland as a location willencourage scholars from across Europe to attend. This nation'stri-lingual status has encouraged a focus on the issue of language.

Keynote speaker: Robert Allen Warrior, University of Oklahoma(Other keynote speakers to be confirmed)

Panels will include but are not restricted to:

1. "Speaking with single and forked tongues": Monoglots and Bilinguals

2. "We must teach the Bible in their own dialects": Missionaries andIndian Languages

3. Orality and Literacy

4. Silencing Native Voices: the impact of white settlement

5. Recovering Native Voices

6. Cultural 'Contact Zones'

7. The Language of Native Politics

8. Native Languages in the 21st Century

This is not an exhaustive list and individual papers and/or panels ontopics outside these remits are warmly welcomed.

Individual paper proposals should include a title and precis of nomore than 250 words. Panel proposals should include a title and briefdescription of the panel and a title and précis for each paper.Proposals should be sent electronically to: J.Fear-Segal_at_uea.ac.uk,R.Tillett_at_uea.ac.uk, and Deborah.Madsen_at_lettres.unige.ch and copied to all three addresses.

Review of proposals will begin 16 March, 2007, and proposals will beaccepted until 16 April, 2007.